No room on bars for headlight

Hello,

I recently acquired a Raleigh Furley to be my do-all bike, and on weekdays it's going to be a fair-weather commuter.

Anyways, I have a Cateye light/computer kit that I put on the bike, which has a Velo 7 and a head/tail light in it. I have my computer on the stem (where I like it) and my tail light just clipped on to my rack. But I'm running into issues finding room for my head light.

I have crosstop levers mounted, and not much room for anything else. The crosstops are not going anywhere, so I'm looking for an alternative.

I'm thinking about one of those Nob things that you see on Peter White Cycles, but I'm not sure about how durable they'd be.

.02 ... living in a rainy place ..
just critiquing greg-jones mount, upside down.. water goes in around the wiring hole in the light's shell .

they designed that hole to be in the bottom, where water wont flow .. uphill ..

Bene Sugg .. I'd come up from the fork crown, instead of down from the handlebar. .

Google I BoB forum was asking about other than special limited edition inverse reengineered
EDelux LED lights what can be mounted upside down ,if youve used that thru a couple rainy seasons
(snow really is not so penetrating as riding in a a good long downpour.. )
then maybe that will satisfy them ..

gregjones, I like what you did. The fork crown on a 26" or 700c wheel bike is an excellent height for a light. It's also out of the way.

Thanks.

I figured that millions of motorcycles can't be all wrong.

I like the location a whole lot better than above the bars. I was thinking of the axle or brake boss mounts but went with the motorcycle point. Problem Solvers makes a handlebar mount that would do the same thing, I went with the Minora so that I could mount it on the stem and not get in the mess of cables and the cross levers. It's been trouble free. Sixty-fiver has a real cool bar that he made to bolt at the hole in the fork crown. I would have had to change brake styles due to the central brake/straddle cable location.

I've added this feature to several bikes. A piece of scrap thinwall steel tube attached to the rear of the fork with the brake bolt, and a piece of scrap rubber hose to approximate handlebar diameter. No cost for the materials.

Some silver ones, a black one, a red one, an orange one and a couple of titanium ones

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Originally Posted by Shinkers

Perfect guys! Lots and lots of ideas I see. I really like the fork mount adapter idea, as well as mounting a bracket on the stem. I'll be making a trip to the bike shop tomorrow.

Thanks guys!

I've found that lowering the light too much below the handlebars casts odd shadows. Mounting it on the fork tip like the Problem Solver does makes shadows very long and distorted. Mounting the light at the handlebar level is just about optimal.

Some of the other ideas mount the lights in places where you could catch them or hit them in a crash. You don't need to increase the level of possible injury if you crash. The best light mount that I've found that doesn't take up any handlebar space and puts the light in a good position is the Dijia Cycleworks mount from Velo Orange. It takes the place of 2 of the mounting bolts on the handlebar front face clamp. The only caveat is that you have to have a 4 bolt face plate.